1 Samuel 16:1
OIL] probably consecrated oil for anointing.... [ Continue Reading ]
OIL] probably consecrated oil for anointing.... [ Continue Reading ]
DAVID IS ANOINTED KING OVER ISRAEL From 1 Samuel 16 on, the interest centres in David rather than in Saul.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF SAUL HEAR _it_] Saul's action, recorded in 1 Samuel 22:18, shows that Samuel's fears were far from baseless. SAY, I AM COME TO SACRIFICE] Samuel was not asked to prevaricate. God relieved him of his difficulty by giving him a definite command.... [ Continue Reading ]
BETH-LEHEM] originally Ephrath (Genesis 48:7), 5 m. S. of Jerusalem. TREMBLED] For Samuel had been wont to move from one town to another to punish offences (1 Samuel 7:16).... [ Continue Reading ]
SANCTIFY YOURSELVES] This was done by washing themselves and removing all ceremonial defilement. HE SANCTIFIED JESSE AND HIS SONS] This gave Samuel an opportunity for private conversation.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAID] to himself, thought.... [ Continue Reading ]
AGAIN, JESSE MADE SEVEN] RV simply, 'And Jesse made seven.' The sons already named are included in the seven.... [ Continue Reading ]
WE WILL NOT SIT DOWN] probably to the feast which followed the sacrifice: cp. 1 Samuel 9.... [ Continue Reading ]
RUDDY] This colouring is much admired in the East where most are dark-skinned. OF A BEAUTIFUL COUNTENANCE] lit. 'fair of eyes.' In those hot countries bordering on the desert, multitudes are disfigured by ophthalmia, as was Leah (Genesis 29:17 RV).... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE MIDST OF HIS BRETHREN] Probably they thought Samuel had anointed him as his follower, or to become in time a prophet like himself. 13, 14. THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON DAVID.. DEPARTED FROM SAUL] The special grace conferred by anointing passed from the rejected Saul to the new king: cp.... [ Continue Reading ]
AN EVIL SPIRIT FROM GOD] apparently a gloomy, suspicious melancholy bordering on madness. To the Hebrew, every visitation, alike of good and evil, is directly from Jehovah: cp. 1 Kings 22:22; Amos 3:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAND BEFORE ME] i.e. be one of my servants: cp. 1 Kings 10:8.... [ Continue Reading ]